Number: 21

Title: East Meets West

Type: Original Fiction


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Synopsis:
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A word of excessive cliches taken in their most literal form make up the
background of this off-beat "buddy movie" story.

One boy is American. He is about to graduate high school. Like many of
his classmates, he is a bit of a military nut, gets into a gunfight a
week and several hand-to-hand fights every day, and his regular high
school curriculum includes subjects like Disarming Police, Anti-
Terrorist Tactics in Buildings, Busses, and Trains, Stunt Driving,
Marksmanship, Slang 101, Explosives Disarming, Stealing and Piloting
Aircraft not Known to the Public to Even Exist, etc. He and his fellow
students are like a band of John McClanes.

The other boy is Japanese. Also about to graduate high school. He deals
with daily demonic posessions, evil street gangs, violent criminal
syndicates backed by international conspiracies, various tentacle demon
attacks, and the odd trans-dimensional portal. His high school
curriculum includes such subjects as Unarmed Fighting, 1001 Weapon
Forms, Giant Robot Construction, Care, and Operation, Dramatic Hair in
Wind Techniques, Dealing with Magical Creatures, Treating a Group of
Unrealistically Pretty Yet Bubble-Headed Girls in a Slightly Romantic
but Clumsy Way Likely to Cause Great Personal Harm and Many Panty Shots,
Defending Against the Forces of Evil from the Neitherworld, etc. He and
his fellow students are very much your average crop of anime high school
Bishonen.

The pair meet while the Japanese dude is nearing graduation and needs to
'get away from it all.' America is more or less the Land of Cliches only
the Japanese are Familiar With. Various adventures are about, with the
American boy and his posse helping the visitor out.

The tables are turned a few months later, when the American visits Japan
just before he graduates, and has a hard time dealing with the weird
goings-on in Japan, and the Japanese dude and his fellow Bishonen help
the visitor out.

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